This thread is intended as a starting point for anyone looking at this forum, and wondering "Hey, what exactly is Hero Lab?"

Hero Lab allows you to create, manage, and advance player characters and NPCs for Mutants & Masterminds.

As well as creating new heroes (including picking abilities, skills, feats, powers and equipment), Hero Lab allows you to print heroes in a variety of formats, access pre-created stock NPCs, track additional power points added through experience, track your hero on an “electronic character sheet” during play, and for GMs manage encounters and combats between the players and their opponents.

A picture tells a thousand words, so here are a couple of screenshots showing how Hero Lab displays the ability scores and powers of the Battlesuit archetype from the core rules:

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That sounds pretty swell! Where can I find out more about Hero Lab?

We published four designer diaries on the mutantsandmasterminds.com web site about Hero Lab. You can find them here: